Russia on Thursday launched large-scale snap military drills, putting its troops on full combat readiness in districts bordering Ukraine and the Baltic states, the defense minister said …read more Source: The Daily...

When Donald Trump named a little-known US energy consultant as part of his foreign policy team, the adviser’s ex-boss was puzzled; how could the relatively junior banker he knew in Moscow a decade ago be qualified to brief a presidential candidate? Carter Page, who worked in Russia at US investment bank Merrill Lynch, paints an impressive...

The previous 84 items in this series cover developments that might concern Donald Trump’s opponents. Tonight we have one that might concern his most fervent supporters.In an interview aired this evening with his supporter Sean Hannity, Trump showed that he understood the logic behind immigration-reform proposals like that of Marco...

Egypt’s Tourism Promotion Authority has launched a series of artistic events to attract Ukranian tourists to the resort city of Sharm al-Sheikh as winter approaches. South Sinai Governor Khaled Fouda has agreed with Sami Mahmoud, the head of the authority, to sponsor a concert for Ukranian singer Svetlana Loboda in order to promote Egypt in...

Image: A winter view of Armenia’s capital of Yerevan. Author: Serouj Ourishian (Wikipedia) In less than a month Armenia will mark the 25th anniversary of its independence. It should be a time for joy. But like many Armenians I will be thinking about what might have been, about the opportunities lost. As our country approaches the September...

Thomas E. Graham Global Governance, Eurasia Kennan’s Long Telegram needs an update for Putin’s Russia. In February 1946, George Kennan sent back from Moscow the “Long Telegram,” an analysis of the sources of Soviet foreign policy, which came to serve as the intellectual foundation of the containment policy the United States pursued...